Excerpt from Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame of Messrs. Holtzapffel and Co: With Special Reference to Its Compensation Adjustment, and With Numerous Illustrations of Its Capabilities Whan an amateur of the Art of Turning adds to his apparatus the Geometric Chuck in one or more parts or' the Elliptical or Epicycloidal Cutting Frame - he will probably, if at all prone to scientific dabblings, soon desire to know something of the laws upon which the action of such instruments depends, and will not be contented with admiring the facility with which, by haphazard adjustments, this species of ornamentation can be applied to the decoration of plane surfaces. After puzzling his own brains for a while, it will per haps occur to him that some enthusiastic predecessor may have placed on record in a simple and attractive form the result of such an investigation as he is dis posed to commence. But here he is doomed to dis appointment; for the following. List comprises, so far as can be ascertained, all that has been hitherto published upon the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.